Re: [HCDX]: Free Translation sites

[Charlie C <ccrawford@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In a related matter: excellent article in May 2000 edition of WIRED
magazine about MT (machine translation).

Charlie C.


>Machine or computer translation is ***extremely*** primitive, and is
>unlikely to replace human translation anytime soon.  IMHO not before the
>middle of this century.  Although computers can greatly assist a translator,
>such as online/CD ROM dictionaries or glossaries that can save much time
>wasted looking up words in paper texts, they not only have difficulty
>handling grammar (you often come up with a stilted "me Tarzan you Jane"
>pidgin), but they can't distinguish colloquialisms or idiomatic expressions.

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ct was subventioned by... "(ce projet a été
>subventionné par...),  "inscription modalities" (registration procedures, in
>French: modalités d'inscription), and my favourite mis-translation, for
>"union dues": "syndical cotizations" (in French: Cotisations syndicales).
>
>73
>********************************************************************
>Mike Brooker
>99 Wychcrest Ave.,
>Toronto, ON  M6G 3X8
>CANADA
>(416) 536-7406
>********************************************************************

I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
                               "My Back Pages", 1964 B. Dylan

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